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Blocked   /blɑkt/   Listen
verb
Block  v. t.  (past & past part. blocked; pres. part. blocking)  
1.
To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; used both of persons and things; often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor; to block an entrance. "With moles... would block the port." "A city... besieged and blocked about."
2.
To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.
3.
To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.
4.
To cause (any activity) to halt by creating an obstruction; as, to block a nerve impulse; to block a biochemical reaction with a drug.
To block out, to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out; to outline; as, to block out a plan.


adjective
blocked  adj.  
1.
Closed to traffic. "Traffic was blocked by an overturned tractor-trailor"
Synonyms: out of use(predicate).
2.
At a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions.
Synonyms: deadlocked, stalemated.
3.
Unusable because of some obstruction.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Blocked" Quotes from Famous Books



... I found a big Howe truss bridge on fire and didn't get in for two days. The road was blocked, everything out of gear and I had to double back ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
... street is a large house of a dirty, faded appearance; the cobwebbed windows blocked up; the door with a broken knocker and a sad want of paint. It is evidently the ci-devant residence of a Birmingham manufacturer of the old school, before the suburbs of Edgbaston and Handsworth sprang up, now turned into a warehouse or receptacle for lumber. As ...
— Rides on Railways • Samuel Sidney
... fiercely; and, walking to the forecastle, placed his hand on the scuttle and descended with studied slowness. As he reached the floor the perturbed face of Bill blocked the opening. ...
— Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) • W.W. Jacobs
... first week of lactation the milk tubes of the breasts very often become blocked and the breasts become engored with milk, this condition being known as "caked breasts." At this particular time of the baby's life, he takes little more than an ounce of milk at a feed; so, beside the incoming engorgement of milk, an additional burden ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler
... and saw the wreck of the city and the houseless people camping out among the things they had saved. Fire was still burning or smouldering everywhere, high walls were falling, hose were playing on mountains of smouldering timber, whole streets were blocked with masses of fallen brick and stone, charred telegraph poles and fused wires were lying about, with half burned ledgers and half burned everything. The colored population exceeds one hundred and fifty-two thousand ...
— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)


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